Kurdish Lover
Synopsis
The Kurdish lover is Oktay, a man of Kurdish origin with whom I share my life. We have been drifting through a devastated region brought to a standstill by war and economic misery. How do people manage to co-exist in this place? This is the question posed by the film.
Here we live in close proximity to one another, in a tightly woven network of geographical and social ties. Loving someone can become confused with having a hold over them. It is with an often black humour that the characters featured in this film find ways, within their community, to affirm that they truly exist.
A shaman goes into trance in front of the television, sex-starved hermit dreams of marriage, a ewe is sacrificed and eaten, an old woman prevents her daughter-in-law from learning to read, a shepherdess lives at the top of the mountain and would like to return to the valley, the military watch over the village, a man who came from Europe goes off to request the hand in marriage of a young girl living with her mother.
It is through these situations that we discover the reality of families doing what they can to find a way of living together, to take the best - or the worst - from each moment."
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Présent
- Co-production : 24Images
- Foreign production company : Avanton Productions
- French distribution : Nour Films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Patrice Nezan
- Screenwriter : Clarisse Hahn
- Director of photography : Clarisse Hahn
- Assistant Director : Oktay Sengul
- Editor : Catherine Rascon
- Sound recordists : Clarisse Hahn, Catherine Rascon
- Co-producer : Farid Rezkallah
- Press Attaché (film) : Claire Viroulaud
- Sound Editor : Janne Laine
- Sound Mixer : Janne Laine
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : Kurdish, French, English, German, Turkish
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France)
- Production year : 2012
- French release : 12/09/2012
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 118.654
- Visa issue date : 26/04/2011
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Rating restrictions : None
